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Enlightenment's Compositor Gets A Huge Rewrite

Phoronix: Enlightenment's Compositor Gets A Huge Rewrite

It's been less than one month since the release of Enlightenment E18, but already there are exciting changes landed for its follow on release. Pushed on Tuesday were many more interesting changes to Enlightenment's Git repository. The most important change was a huge window management and compositor rewrite...

Enlightenment seems the most interesting desktop environment these days, but despite the large optimization and such, it needs improved stability (I have frequent crashes on it, I use it on a secondary computer I have) and features (there's some stuff people use it on KDE or Gnome/Cinnamon that aren't here) without making performance worse (a very difficult task, I know). I think it needs some more apps, like a software similar to Okular and other stuff.

What's interesting of this rewrite? Despite the large change of code, it seems they managed to make the code smaller:
343 files changed, 26292 insertions, 30694 deletions

Are those insertions changes or lines? It could be interesting to compare the code size

Will this work on Vbox?? And also how are you supposed to start E. I'm not familiar with any popular DM supporting WL. (noobish questions i know)

after settimg the E_WL_FORCE var to x11, run
enlightenment_start

it runs in a nested x11 window
Last I tried fb backend it fails due to some pointer initilzation trying to connect to an X server... but now that they moved to the master branch, they could have fixed it......or I am doing something wrong too...

it runs in a nested x11 window
Last I tried fb backend it fails due to some pointer initilzation trying to connect to an X server... but now that they moved to the master branch, they could have fixed it......or I am doing something wrong too...

I'll try to modify the arch/aur git PKGBUILTS for efl elm and enlightenment and see how far i can get. I don't want to run it nested.

Scimmia who is a member in this forum might be able to provide some help.